Collapsible cover or hood for motor and like vehicles.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. re, 1911.

Application filed May 6, 1910. Serial No. 559,746.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that l, \Viniuamr llntrrrnn, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of il urtteinberg, Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful lu'iproven'ients in Collapsible Covers or Hoods for Motor and the Like Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the Following to be a full, clear, and. exact description of the .lllYGntlOll, such as will skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object a collapsible cover or hood for motor ears and the like, which is distinguished from siniilar known arrangements in addition to its light construction, particularly, by its be ing able to be collapsed togother with the fore cover or hood From one point of rota.- tion the mine of the side windowg being 'lori'ned by the cover supports siinultznieouisly with the erection of the cover. in this way it i possible for a larn'laulet, for instance, to he immediately converted into a phaeton by simply collapsing its cover.

One form of col'istruction of the invention will now he more particularly explained in connection ino- (,ll'tt\\il'lQS as an example.

Figure 1 shows the improved, arrangement in an erected position on a motor ear; Flu. the same in a. collapsed condition; and Fig. 3, the 5211]: on an enlarged scale erected and in dotted lines collapsed.

The ordinary cover or hood a forms in the present case one piece with the forerovcr i), and the ordinary yoluwshapcd alrnts or stays are flexibly connected with one another in such a way that they may be folded back sin!ultaneouoly on a common point oi rotation in order to allow of this the struts (Z of the fore cover are dire tly pivoted at the point while the struts or stays o, f, ,7, are suitably pivoted to lHl'S ft, 27. These bars /L, 'i, which are in' turn oonl'loriod with one another by a hinge 0, form. when the cover is e; noted, the oppcr and rear l'rarnc bars for the side win dows, the upper bar 72, resting on the fold ing posts 7.; of the front window, while the bar 2' rests on the fixed posts frame. The front cover 7) is preferably supported in front also by folding struts m or struts held taut by straps and the like. The front cover is stittened by the ordinary braces 72.

l. declare that what I claim is:-

. 1. In a collapsible cover for automobiles, a frame, rear Window bars pivoted thereto at their lower ends respectively, upper bars pivoted at their rear ends to the upper ends of the rear bars and adapted to fold downwardly against the front face of the rear bars, front stays pivoted to the front end of the upper bars and l'oldable backwardly toward the upper face of the upper bars, and intermediate stays pivoted to the upper face of the upper bars and toldahle backwardly.

In an auton'iohile or the'like, the (0111- hination of a frarne, rcar window bars pivoted thereto at their lower ends, from folding window posts, upper bars pivoted to the upper ends of. the rear window bars and adapted to rest at their front ends on the upper ends of the folding poets respectively trout stays pivoted to the vForward ends of the upper bars reopen-(l vely, intermediate stays pivoted to the intermediate part of the upper liars, struts pivoted sulr stantially at the points at which the rear wimlo.v-liai's are pivoted. and a collapsible cover and hood carried by said stays cars and struts, said rear window bars and strut-s being adapted to fold liacltwardly so that the rear bars rest; on the struts, the upper liars being jtoldablo dowmvardly on the front part of the rear lHll'S, and. the stays being; 't'oldahle baclnvardly on the upper bars.

In testimony wlun-eot l" allix my sip-na ture, in presence of two witnesses.

Vi tnesses llltltM'A NN Wurrn iioi i'rnn, FRANZ GAUrr.

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